As we mentioned at the beginning of the month we're updating our reward tiers, some of which haven't been updated in years! Thanks to everybody who looked over the proposal for the last two weeks! Best audience in the world. here's what we'll be launching October 1. All of the current rewards will go out for the last time October 1. And the new rewards system takes over November 1.
One last thing you can help with! We don't have a name yet for the new top tier. We've had a f...
2019-09-16 16:02:33 +0000 UTC
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SCORECARD: VR isn't Dead, MoviePass Is - DTNS 3616 starts at 15:09
Sarah confesses she had a 3-foot long sandwich for lunch. Len expresses shock and awe. Tom spouts a personal aphorism about curing a hangover. Tom tongue lashes Roger over his supposed mocking tone over the saving of the St Louis Blues. We toy around with background blur in Skype. Len asks increasingly in-depth questions about Sarah's sandwich eating. Roger suspects Len is positioning himself as a eating competition prom...
2019-09-13 22:59:59 +0000 UTC
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SCORECARD: VR isn't Dead, MoviePass Is - DTNS 3616 starts at 15:09
Sarah confesses she had a 3-foot long sandwich for lunch. Len expresses shock and awe. Tom spouts a personal aphorism about curing a hangover. Tom tongue lashes Roger over his supposed mocking tone over the saving of the St Louis Blues. We toy around with background blur in Skype. Len asks increasingly in-depth questions about Sarah's sandwich eating. Roger suspects Len is positioning himself as a eating competition prom...
2019-09-13 21:50:59 +0000 UTC
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Brian Brushwood wants more nudity scenes. Justin shares his favorite picks of current TV shows and debates Sarah over the show "Succession". Tom explains how his solar installation approval process is going on. We move our discussion to the resurgence of Opening Theme music in TV shows and we finish with the musical career of LMFAO.
2019-09-12 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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A Huawei Out - DTNS 3615 starts 14:21
Brian Brushwood wants more nudity scenes. Justin shares his favorite picks of current TV shows and debates Sarah over the show "Succession". Tom explains how his solar installation approval process is going on. We move our discussion to the resurgence of Opening Theme music in TV shows and we finish with the musical career of LMFAO.
2019-09-12 21:56:31 +0000 UTC
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Theatremonkey graciously put together this sizzle reel for GDI! Enjoy.
2019-09-12 19:40:07 +0000 UTC
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X Marks the Cross - DTNS 3614 starts at 15:45
California Senate passes a bill that if passed by the state Assembly and signed by the Governor will greatly expand the state's oversight into who can be classified employee or contractor. What are the implications for the gig-economy and how will workers benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
2019-09-11 21:44:47 +0000 UTC
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Sarah Lane has spent the last three months living with smart light bulbs from Phillips and LifX. On this episode we talk about her findings.
SMART LIGHTBULBS
PRODUCTS:
- Hue Starter Kit E26: 4-Pack White Bulbs and Bridge - $99.99
https://www2.meethue.com/en-us/p/hue-white-starter-kit-e26/046677530365
2019-09-06 22:59:58 +0000 UTC
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What a great August! I got to meet a bunch of awesome people in Dublin at the DTNS meetup. Thanks to everyone who came out and brought bacon and bought me Guinness. Y’all are too kind. I think we even made some connections involving art and intellectual property. (No, I haven’t forgotten).
And then right after I got back from that I jetted to Austin to be on the live Night Attack at the Out of Bounds Comedy festival and was pleased to see a DTNS hat in the audience! Plus gold stars ...
2019-09-05 16:19:03 +0000 UTC
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Dearest Patrons,
For the last three months I’ve been living with smart lightbulbs for the first time, and I’m getting ready to break down the good, the bad, and the wonky for y’all later this week.
In the meantime, you’ve got a job to do: help me decide my next Live With It subject! The DTNS team narrowed the category down to smartwatches, an accessory I have yet to own. Why not, you ask? The simple answer is that besides extra hairbands I don’t really wear things ...
2019-09-04 17:38:30 +0000 UTC
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By Shannon Morse, Threatwire
Google’s Project Zero found a severe iOS exploit and reported on this attack just last week. The Threat Analysis Group at the company discovered a collection of websites that were being used in watering hole attacks against visitors, specifically targeting users with the iOS zero day. Later, news emerged that other operating systems may also have been targeted incl...
2019-09-03 16:17:37 +0000 UTC
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DTNS has had essentially the same lineup of tiers and rewards for most of its 5 years. In fact the last time we really changed rewards was when Sarah joined in November 2017. So it's time to look at what rewards still make sense, what tiers make sense, make a stab at some ideas for changes, and ask you what you think.
Here are a few of our considerations
1. The $1 tier is almost break even these days. Patreon makes our lives infinitely easier but that meant it costs...
2019-09-02 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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September means store displays turn to Halloween and Apple schedules an announcement. It also means it's time to thank you all for supporting our little indie take on tech! As we mention, most tech news outlets out there have a big corporate backer but we're much happier having you. Thanks for making that possible.
On to to the thank you perks. Depending on which tier you're on you can get DTNS or Good Day Internet (at higher tiers you can even get both) in a special RSS feed thro...
2019-09-01 21:06:36 +0000 UTC
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Tom deconstructs why an email from his bank troubled him so much. Hint: It didn't mention security. And a little bit about why we pick the security stories we do.
2019-08-28 17:41:24 +0000 UTC
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Support me on alternative platforms! https://snubsie.com/support
https://www.youtube.com/shannonmorse -- subscribe to my new channel!
ThreatWire is only possible because of our Patreon patrons! https://ww...
2019-08-20 16:18:40 +0000 UTC
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Support me on alternative platforms! https://snubsie.com/support
https://www.youtube.com/shannonmorse -- subscribe to my new channel!
ThreatWire is only possible because of our Patreon patrons! https://ww...
2019-08-14 14:13:14 +0000 UTC
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Chris Ashley from the SMR Podcast chats with Tom about Amazon's cooperation with Police on promoting Ring doorbell video sharing, how that might feed into Amazon's imperfect Recognition facial recognition system and what we need to do to make this work better for all of us.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756555/amazon-ring-police-sec...
2019-08-08 16:35:57 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, Tom is coming to Dublin for Worldcon (part fo the Sword and Laser podcast coverage) and thanks to he awesome Paulo will be having a meetup. here are the details:
Saturday August 17 at 6 PM at Lagoona
Lagoona is right in front of the Mayor Square (NCI) stop on the Luas red line.
https://lagoona.ie/
2019-08-08 15:57:45 +0000 UTC
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We talk with Tonya M. Evans, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Director, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & Law Certificate Program at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law about Libra, its misconceptions, why it's not truly a cryptocurrency and what the future may hold for it.
What are in your view the main misconceptions about Libra?
What in your view are the main problems/challenges for Libra
What would the reception o...
2019-08-07 18:46:26 +0000 UTC
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By Shannon Morse, ThreatWire
Way back in April, two security researchers reached out to the WiFi Alliance about a group of vulnerabilities they called Dragonblood, which affect WPA3 by enacting a denial of service attack, two downgrade attacks and two side channel info leaks. WPA3 is the n...
2019-08-06 16:26:57 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks. Welcome to the heart of summer. Thanks again for being the awesome supporter of independent tech news that you are. After 5 and a half years of this it’s always stunning to me that we still have people like you willing to support us. THANK YOU.
This month is of course the lull before the autumn storm that brings us more announcements from IFa, Apple’s usual announcements and lots more. Good on Samsung for beating the rush!
Oh and a note that I’m out for a couple w...
2019-08-05 19:31:01 +0000 UTC
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August is here! Hot times for some, winter for some, tech news for all! Thanks so much for supporting independent tech news. Most tech news outlets out there have a big corporate backer or big advertisers. We have you. And we prefer it that way. Thanks for making that possible.
Now to thank you we have some perks. Depending on which tier you're on you can get DTNS or Good Day Internet (at higher tiers you can even get both) in a special RSS feed through Patreon.
Good Day Int...
2019-08-01 15:54:54 +0000 UTC
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by Shannon Morse, ThreatWire
Marcus Hutchins has received his get out of jail free card. Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, hit notoriety after stopping the WannaCry ransomware outbreak that occurred in 2017. This ransomware brought down networks in companies found in over 150 countries, so his activation of a kill switch invariably disabled much of the ransomware from spreading. While MalwareTech stayed anon...
2019-07-30 16:26:29 +0000 UTC
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by Shannon Morse
ThreatWire is only possible because of our Patreon patrons! patreon.com/threatwire
Google updated Chrome to version 76, and with that they’ve also closed a loophole that many online publishers were using to detect if people were using incognito mode. Incognito mode lets you browse the web without sites appearing in your search history, and it keeps ...
2019-07-24 17:32:27 +0000 UTC
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Tom went up to Canada for a podcaster's round table. here's what he took back with him.
NOTE: This is usually a special audio column for supporters at the $5 level and up on Patreon but is being made public this time for all to enjoy.
2019-07-13 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
The way we get better is to hear form folks about what they think of what we're thinking about doing!
Take our survey and let us know please!
http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/survey/
2019-07-12 21:43:21 +0000 UTC
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Tom talks with professor Josh Lepawsky about what the real situation with e-waste is and why the professor thinks people should look at the factory, not just the landfill.
2019-07-09 18:37:06 +0000 UTC
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by Shannon Morse, Threatwire
Last week, the contributors to GnuPG, the PGP Protocol, noticed that their SKS Keyserver Network was under attack by unknown assailants, and publicized details about it on their Github. According to the post, certificate spamming attacks against two high profile contributors of OpenPGP named Robert J Hansen and Daniel Kahn Gillmor, began in late June 2019. The attack is exploiting a kno...
2019-07-09 16:14:57 +0000 UTC
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Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is moving away from Butterfly keyboards, court rules that Amazon is liable for third-party sellers, and Waymo receives a permit to participate in California's autonomous vehicle passenger service pilot program.
2019-07-04 15:33:11 +0000 UTC
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